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Non-Hermiticity gives rise to distinctive topological phenomena absent in Hermitian systems. However, connection between such intrinsic non-Hermitian topology and Hermitian topology has remained largely elusive. Here, considering the bulk…

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Considerable efforts have recently been devoted to the experimental realization of a two-dimensional Chern insulator, i.e., a system displaying a quantum anomalous Hall effect. However, existing approaches such as those based on magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-09-12 Kevin F. Garrity , David Vanderbilt

We suggest a construction of a large class of topological states using an array of quantum wires. First, we show how to construct a Chern insulator using an array of alternating wires that contain electrons and holes, correlated with an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-11 Eran Sagi , Yuval Oreg

Photonic platforms invariant under parity ($\mathcal{P}$), time-reversal ($\mathcal{T}$), and duality ($\mathcal{D}$) can support topological phases analogous to those found in time-reversal invariant ${\mathbb{Z}_2}$ electronic systems…

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) state is a two-dimensional topological insulating state that has quantized Hall resistance of h/Ce2 and vanishing longitudinal resistance under zero magnetic field, where C is called the Chern number. The…

The skin effect, which is unique to non-Hermitian systems, can generate an extensive number of eigenstates localized near the boundary in an open geometry. Here we propose that in 2D and 3D other quantities besides charge density are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-07 Yuhao Ma , Taylor L. Hughes

Non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) in non-Hermitian lattice systems, associated with a point gap on the complex energy plane, has attracted great theoretical and experimental interest. Much less is studied on the so-called second-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Weiwei Zhu , Jiangbin Gong

Quantum Hall systems are characterized by the quantization of the Hall conductance -- a bulk property rooted in the topological structure of the underlying quantum states. In condensed matter devices, material imperfections hinder a direct…

Quantum dots are one of the paradigmatic solid-state systems for quantum engineering, providing an outstanding tunability to explore fundamental quantum phenomena. Here we show that non-Hermitian many-body topological modes can be realized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-07 Timo Hyart , Jose L. Lado

Microwave impedance microscopy (MIM) has been utilized to directly visualize topological edge states in many quantum materials, from quantum Hall systems to topological insulators, across the GHz regime. While the microwave response for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-02 Taige Wang , Chen Wu , Masataka Mogi , Minoru Kawamura , Yoshinori Tokura , Zhi-Xun Shen , Yi-Zhuang You , Monica T. Allen

Robustness against disorder and defects is a pivotal advantage of topological systems, manifested by absence of electronic backscattering in the quantum Hall and spin-Hall effects, and unidirectional waveguiding in their classical analogs.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Zhe Zhang , Pierre Delplace , Romain Fleury

Topologically protected surface modes of classical waves hold the promise to enable a variety of applications ranging from robust transport of energy to reliable information processing networks. The integer quantum Hall effect has delivered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Weiyin Deng , Xueqin Huang , Jiuyang Lu , Valerio Peri , Feng Li , Sebastian D. Huber , Zhengyou Liu

Non-Hermitian topological insulators have attracted considerable attention due to their distinctive energy band characteristics and promising applications. Here, we systematically investigate non-Hermitian M\"obius insulators and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Wenjie Zhang , Yuting Yang , Xiaopeng Shen , Liwei Shi , Zhi Hong Hang

Topological phases and topological phase transitions (TPT) are among the most fantastic phenomena in Nature. Here we show that injecting a current may lead to new topological phases, especially new gapless topological metallic phases with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 Fadi Sun , Jinwu Ye

Dissipation in open systems enriches the possible symmetries of the Hamiltonians beyond the Hermitian framework allowing the possibility of novel non-Hermitian topological phases, which exhibit long-living end states that are protected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Wojciech Brzezicki , Matti Silveri , Marcin Płodzień , Francesco Massel , Timo Hyart

One of the most important practical hallmarks of topological matter is the presence of topologically protected, exponentially localised edge states at interfaces of regions characterised by unequal topological invariants. Here, we show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-01 Suraj S. Hegde , Toni Ehmcke , Tobias Meng

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators exhibit chiral edge channels characterized by vanishing longitudinal conductance and quantized Hall conductance of Ce2/h, wherein the Chern number C is an integer equal to the number of the parallel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-05 Peng Deng , Yulei Han , Peng Zhang , Su Kong Chong , Zhenhua Qiao , Kang L. Wang

Topological phases of matter are the center of much current interest, with promising potential applications in, e.g., topologically-protected transport and quantum computing. Traditionally such states are prepared by tuning the system…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-03-17 Gal Shavit , Moshe Goldstein

Impurities embedded in electronic systems induce bound states which under certain circumstances can hybridize and lead to impurity bands. Doping of insulators with impurities has been identified as a promising route towards engineering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 Emma L. Minarelli , Kim Pöyhönen , Gerwin A. R. van Dalum , Teemu Ojanen , Lars Fritz

Non-Hermiticity can vary the topology of system, induce topological phase transition, and even invalidate the conventional bulk-boundary correspondence. Here, we show the introducing of non-Hermiticity without affecting the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-30 K. L. Zhang , H. C. Wu , L. Jin , Z. Song